Adamanterpeton

Adamanterpeton; Temporal range: Late Carboniferous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	†Temnospondyli
Family:	†Cochleosauridae
Genus:	†Adamanterpeton; Milner and Sequeira, 1998
Type species
	†Adamanterpeton ohioensis; Milner and Sequeira, 1998

Adamanterpeton is a genus of edopoid temnospondyl within the family Cochleosauridae. Two specimens were discovered in the fossil-rich Allegheny Formation of Linton, Ohio. The type species A. ohioensis was named in 1998. Adamanterpeton is rare in the Linton vertebrate assemblage, with other amphibians like Sauropleura, Ophiderpeton, and Colosteus being more common.[1] Unlike other Linton vertebrates, Adamanterpeton may have been adapted to a terrestrial lifestyle.[2]

References

Hook, R.W.; Baird, D. (1988). "An overview of the Upper Carboniferous fossil deposit at Linton, Ohio". The Ohio Journal of Science. 88 (1): 55–60. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24.
Milner, A.R.; Sequeira, S.E.K. (1998). "A cochleosaurid temnospondyl amphibian from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Linton, Ohio, U.S.A." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122 (1): 261–290. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb02532.x.

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[HB88-1] Hook, R.W.; Baird, D. (1988). "An overview of the Upper Carboniferous fossil deposit at Linton, Ohio". The Ohio Journal of Science. 88 (1): 55–60. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24.

[MS98-2] Milner, A.R.; Sequeira, S.E.K. (1998). "A cochleosaurid temnospondyl amphibian from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Linton, Ohio, U.S.A." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122 (1): 261–290. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb02532.x.